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Correctional facilities often rely on external funding to enhance operations, improve inmate programs, and upgrade security measures. Corrections grants provide essential financial support for these initiatives, allowing facilities to implement new technologies, expand training programs, and address critical needs. This directory offers articles and resources to help correctional staff navigate the grant application process, stay informed about available funding opportunities, and maximize their chances of success. Additionally, understanding Correctional Facility Budgeting can further aid in effective resource management.

Administration officials said the decision to halt grants and loans was necessary to ensure that spending complies with President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders
The grant will fund technology that will allow inmates in state-run correctional facilities to access college courses.
The grants allow the state “to invest in programs that improve reentry outcomes and reduce the likelihood that a person will reoffend in the future”
The grant will provide funding for legal and attorneys fees and costs for getting convictions vacated
The funding will help address substance abuse issues in community corrections
The program will help deputies and COs identify and respond to a mental health crisis as well as potentially in their own lives
“Training everyone who works with those facing addiction and recovery is a pivotal step in making a change,” said one official
The grant will enable drug counselors to conduct a six-month program at seven prisons to help inmates break substance abuse habits
The program provides education and related programming for incarcerated individuals
The program aims to address housing, employment, family relationships, substance abuse issues and more
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The county’s DOC will be upgrading the current staff body alarm system that was installed in 1999
This new program will provide individual support, peer support groups, classes, workshops, action planning and more
The grant will also help defendants charged with non-violent crimes avoid prison by seeking treatment
The 60 vests are being purchased with a $34,500 grant from the Office of Homeland Security
The former four-term Republican governor says he’s had a change of heart in his approach to criminal justice
The group aims to curb the number of Mainers who eventually return to jail or prison
The latest grant awards promote family visitation and reentry and are funded through September 2024
The funds would allow the county to close two of its existing jail facilities and build a new seven-story tower
The DUI court serves as an alternative to prison or jail time
Funding will allow an expansion of reentry programs that demonstrate strong partnerships with corrections, parole, probation, and other reentry service providers
The new jail will house 120 inmates with more space for treatment
The $370,000 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety will go toward check-ins with individuals on probation supervision
The funding is intended to go to the community corrections program, pretrial services, drug treatment court and mental health court
The current jail’s old age has created serious problems for corrections officials
The Van Buren Office of Community Corrections will get $150,000 to support pretrial supervision services
It’s part of a more than $2 million package awarded to Kansas criminal justice organizations
The program targets individuals who have been found incompetent to stand trial and are waiting in jail to go to the state hospital
The program is being funded through a state grant with the New Jersey DOC
The proposal includes a new salary schedule for corrections officers
The program has been nationally recognized for its ability to provide comprehensive education, housing, financial, medical, and social support
The program would keep first-time and youthful offenders out of the criminal justice process altogether